Quilts for the twin boys

A few weeks ago, I posted a preview of these quilts here.

And here I posted pictures of the little boys who will be receiving the quilts.

Here are the finished quilts!

Leslie said that she wanted bright colors and wanted the quilts to be similar but not exactly the same.

Once again, after shopping in a few quilt shops and not finding what I wanted,  I went online and found the theme fabric first – the frog prints!  The only difference between the fabrics is the background color, one is dark blue and the other is an aqua color.  Here’s a closer view of the fabric, I used the respective frog print as the back on each of the quilts.  It’s pretty cute.

Both quilts pictured above.

After I had the frog fabric, I pulled fabrics from my stash that coordinated and that read solid.  Once I found 25 coordinating fabrics, I made two (2) nine-patch blocks of each fabric and put one block in each quilt.

I didn’t know the little boys’ names when I picked out the fabric or began making the quilt, but once they were born and I learned the names – Carter & Tyler – I decided Carter will have the darker blue quilt (cobalt) and Tyler will have the lighter blue (teal).  That works, right?

*Moving on to another subject*

I wanted to make sure to mention I will be teaching a class on making my Four Winds pattern this Saturday, the 18th at the Adel Library Community Room from 12:30 pm – 4 pm.

It should be a great time!  We’ll have pizza at 12:30 and start the class at 1 pm.  I’ll be demonstrating how to use Triangles on a Roll triangle paper, another technique on making half-square triangles, mitering borders, along with other piecing tips along the way!  And with time given in class to work on your quilt, I’m hoping we’ll have most of the quilt done by the time we leave! 

I’m working on another Four Winds quilt using Christmas colors – it will make a great gift for… someone.  That’s a tease, by the way.  More on that later.

More information about the class on Saturday is on the Adel Quilting & Dry Goods blog.  We want all participants signed up by tomorrow, so hurry!!!